In Zhenjiang, China, a museum has been dedicated to the writer Pearl S. Buck, who grew up in the city as the daughter of missionary parents.

The writer T. L. Hines has hidden a copy of each page of his novel “The Unseen” in locations across the U.S. and Canada.

The judges for the Nobel Prize in Literature used the code name “Chateaubriand” to refer to the winner, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, prior to the announcement of his selection.

The self-publishing company AuthorHouse has introduced a gift program that allows holiday shoppers to purchase publishing packages—with different options for poetry collections, children’s books, paperbacks, and hardcovers—for aspiring writers.